In a recent discussion a colleague mentioned that my self-coined terminology in the security stack article was somewhat confusing. While I intentionally did this to make sure that the security stack was being treated as an entity in itself, I agree that the new terminology might actually do more harm than good.
Therefore, please find a 'map' from my terms to the ones that are more common in the network protocol stack. The first phrase is my new term, then follows a mapping to more common terms:
I hope that this clarifies the original intent a little and makes it more readable. Thanks to Nico Williams for pointing this out.
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